Greyhound is starting to look pretty good, huh?
Getting hitched may be the right move for Delta and Northwest. But for beleaguered air travelers, it could usher in an era of higher fares, fewer flights, more confusion at the airport and even more crowded planes.
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Regular "Bob & Tom Show" listeners (I confess to being one -- somebody has to offset the editorial page editors who wake up to NPR) will know a Tim Wilson song called "The First Baptist Bar & Grill." Sometines, life imitates art ( or at least reflects comedy):
The Pub Lounge near the I-75 exit in Sidney is your typical neighborhood restaurant/bar.
It may not be freezing yet, but it's surely getting a little chilly in hell. One of the co-founders of Greenpeace now says, in a Newsweek interview, that perhaps nuclear energy isn't quite the evil it has been depicted:
ZAKARIA: At Greenpeace, you fought against nuclear energy. What changed?
Come on -- you were like me, thought Dr. Phil couldn't possibly look any sleazier than he already has. Were we ever wrong:
BARTOW, Fla. — As talk-show host Dr. Phil McGraw took heat for bailing out one of the girls charged in a vicious beating of a classmate, it emerged that show executives feel they were embarrassed by a low-level producer.
At the risk of again infuriating Catholics (let 'er rip, CED), I must comment on the poll of Catholics released in conjunction with the pope's visit to America. This caught my eye:
Yet, few parishioners overall said they go to confession, and most believed they could be good Roman Catholics without going to Mass.
Madison, Wis., leanrs a "reap what you sow" lesson:
The slaying of a college student in a downtown neighborhood frequented by beggars has forced this liberal city to ask a difficult question: Has Madison been too nice to the homeless?
Fort Wayne has become a haven for refugees, and that welcoming spirit is something to be proud of. But at some point, we have to talk about how many we can realistically handle without being unfair to the immingrants and putting a strain on the services that everybody depends on. But, for far, nobody really wants to talk about that:
OK, think like a government bureaucrat:
NEW YORK - The big cigarette tax increases that many states are instituting to balance their out-of-whack budgets are raising fears that the trend will make black-market smokes more profitable and lead to more cigarette smuggling.
Cigarette smuggling has been going on for generations and already costs states untold billions in lost tax revenue.
Jimmy Carter continues to be an even worse ex-president than he was a president:
NEW YORK CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.
Excuse me for lecturing lawyers on the law, but "unusual" and "illegal" are not synonyms:
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Lawyers for a polygamist sect that is the subject of a massive child-abuse investigation argued in court Wednesday that although its members' multiple marriages and cloistered ways may be unusual, they have a right to their faith and privacy.
